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From: Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com>
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Subject: Re: Bliss History
Date: 13 Jul 2024 20:23:38 -0400
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

> On Sat, 13 Jul 2024 16:05:32 -0500, John H. Reinhardt wrote:

>> The whole article (it appears to be a clipping of chapter from a larger
>> work) is quite an interesting discussion of BLISS.

> Interesting. TIL that PDP-11 Fortran-IV-Plus was written in BLISS, and 
> cross-compiled from a PDP-10. And that it wasn't DEC's first compiler 
> product written in a higher-level language.

In point of fact, DEC's own Fortran-10 compiler (as opposed to the earlier F40
compiler which was provided by an outside vendor) was written in Bliss-10
(which was a CMU implementation of the language, available through DECUS, long
before DEC wrote their own Bliss-36 implementation).

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